Hair-pin



(No Model.)

L. C. BABGOGK. HAIR PIN.

No. 594,223. Patented Nov. 23, 1897.

1 fiA WITNESSES a UV VEJV'ZOR PATENT Fries.

LUOIEN O. BABOOOK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HAIR-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 594,223, dated November23, 1897.

Application filed December 4, 1896. Serial No. 614,472. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUOIEN O. BABoooK, a citizen of the UnitedSt,ates,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Pins;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to hair-pins, and has for its object to provide asimple, cheap, and reliable hair-pin which when inserted in the hairwill be prevented from becoming accidentally displaced by movement ineither direction.

To this end the invention consists in an improved hair-pin embodyingcertain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fullydescribed, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view-0f the improvedhair-pin. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of the hair-pin, showing the same in readiness to be insertedin the hair. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the hair-pin ready forinsertion in the hair.

Similar numerals designate corresponding parts in the several figures ofthe drawings.

The improved hair-pin contemplated in the present invention is formed inone piece, preferably from a section of steel wire of the requisiteelasticity to straightenout when relieved from pressure. This Wire(indicated at 1) is provided at one extremity with abackwardly-extending hook or barb 2, disposed at an acute angle to themain body or shank 1 of the hair-pin, so as to form an acuteentrance-point for the pin. At a short distance from the opposite end 3of the pin the material of which the pin is formed is mashed orflattened, so as to form a thin spring 4, whereby the person using thepin may bend the same until both ends of the pin point in the samedirection, with the rear end of the pin a half-inch, more or less, fromthe shank. The barbed end of the pin is then inserted in the hair andthrust therein the entire length of the pin. Both ends of the pin arethen embedded in the hair, and the barb 2 pre- 7 vents the withdrawal ofthe pin, while the bend of the spring 4 prevents the farther insertionof the pin. The tendency of the rear end of the pin to straighten outcauses it to engage with the hair, and as the hair resists thestraightening out of such end of the pin the latter cannot escape ineither direction.

To remove the hair-pin, itis only necessary to push the hair away fromthe deflected rear end of the pin, when the same will straighten out,after which the pin may be pushed through the hair, barbed end first,and drawn out from the opposite side. Should the hair be thick andheavy, a braid or coil may be slipped over the outer end of the pinbefore pushing the pin through the hair to free it. If the hair is notclosely braided or twisted, it may be pressed and pushed toward thebarbed end of the pin, thus freeing the rear end and allowing the sameto straighten out.

The hair-pin which I have described is extremely simple in construction,economical in manufacture, and will be found of great utility andconvenience in practice, as it will be almost a matter of impossibilityfor the said pin to escapein either direction from the hair.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- A hair-pin provided at one end with apoint and intermediate its ends with a flattened resilient portionadapting the rear end of the pin to be bent so as to extend in the samedirection as the pointed end of the pin, and a barb at or near the pointof the pin for preventing backward movementthereof, sub stantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

LUCIEN O. BABOOGK. Witnesses:

MILTON I. WILLIAMS, Tnos. H. WILLIAMS.

